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The Life of George Washington by Washington Irving

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Excerpt from The AlhambraIN the spring of 1829, the author of this work, whom curiosity
had brought into Spain, made a rambling expedition from Se ville to Granada, in company with a friend, a member of the Russian embassy at ...

Excerpt from Bracebridge HallThe editor has repeatedly used these selections from Bracebridge Hall in the
two lower classes of the high school with pleasure and, he believes, with profit. Without doubt they could be read in the upper grammar grades. ...

Excerpt from Ivan the TerribleFrom the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, then, Russia dwelt apart,
or almost apart, from the European community and from civilization. But she had made a previous effort to enter both, and the work to which ...

Excerpt from Judah P. BenjaminMr. Max J. Kohler, of New York, also furnished me with
a copy of his excellent monograph upon Mr. Ben jamin, and put me upon the track of several other possible sources of information. The most ...

Excerpt from Letters and Addresses of George WashingtonThe Cold was so extremely severe, that Mr.
Gist had all his Fingers, and some of his Toes frozen; but the water was shut up so hard, that we found no Difficulty in ...

Excerpt from Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 of 5I have endeavored to execute my
task with can dor and fidelity; stating facts on what appeared to be good authority, and avoiding as much as possible all false coloring and ...

Excerpt from The Life of Mary: Baker EddyIt is possible, however, to minds Careless Of
verity or those dominated by prejudice, to distort facts by exaggerated statement, to deduce erroneous con elusions from improper handling Of data, to make wilful ...

Excerpt from Mary LambI AM indebted to Mrs. Henry Watson, a grand daughter of Mr.
Gillman, for one or two interesting reminiscences, and for a hitherto unpublished notelet by Lamb (p. Together with an omitted paragraph from a published letter ...